Hey there! Howdy!

I've got to say it loudly:

Thanks, Dan.

I kind of arbitrarily foisted a nearly two-month hiatus on this thing! A function of moving across the country and starting work in a new industry...

So... upon review of Dan's notes... I see that this episode was about what we were listening to at the time! Which might be fairly different than now! But... it was only within the last month...

You know it's probably good!

Nothing whatsoever to do with submarines. Or bogs. Or monsters that take submarines to get to bogs. But then again, maybe!

Uhhhh...

Click below! You will (?) be glad you did!

https://youtu.be/t1uxNwVy5pA

From the rec room to the home office and maybe the porch... if we had porches... #bogmonstermusic

The audio is really the piece de resistance of the podcast... we think... #bogmonstermusic

We also have a list full of music for playing!

Dan's Notes

Fucked Up/Halluci-Nation collabs

https://youtu.be/QLVzYGwtHsk Electroshock

https://youtu.be/VdJubxEeblk John Wayne Was A Nazi

A cool pair of collaborations between good friends on tour, paying tribute to longtime favourites of theirs. Fucked Up released their first LP as a full band in nine years at the start of 2023 and have been hitting the road this year with their kindred spirits from another genre The Halluci-Nation (fka A Tribe Called Red), which has resulted in the two bands coming together to record a couple of fun cover songs to promote their tour (which also features live wrestling matches as openers). The first of these is their take on Ritmo Peligroso’s “Electroshock”, one of the first punk singles to come out of the Mexican scene and a longtime record collecting holy grail until recently for FU vocalist Damian Abraham. The second of these collaborations is a cover of the Millions Of Dead Cops classic “John Wayne Was A Nazi”, a song whose early 80’s hardcore vibes and anticolonialist lyrical sentiments meshes well with the vibes of both bands on a variety of levels, and while some may balk at the wubba-wubba bass drop breakdown in the midst of the cover’s industrial punk angst, I would remind everyone that the original’s slap bass intro was a little bit cringe at the time too. Still, I think it’s really cool that these two bands are not only touring together but making music together too.

End It

https://youtu.be/7BgQEyKeQmE New Wage Slavery

https://youtu.be/RaA_loWu1oM Hatekeeper

Baltimore is starting to get a whiff of that Seattle/Chapel Hill type of hype in terms of the new wave of hardcore bands over the past decade or so and End It are holding it down for the ugly, angry and thrashing side of things, especially on their Unpleasant Living 7” from last year. The band leans heavy into the punk side of crossover thrash, with a wailing solo here and a wailing vocal there, without veering into full on red-Ibanez-metal (if you know what I mean in that bands that leaned a little too hard into the cheesier metal side of crossover thrash always had a guy playing a red Ibanez guitar somewhere in the lineup - this a fact I will not tolerate any arguments on). Anyway, End It rip through six songs in eight minutes on this rager of an EP and it’s just a perfect little package of pure anger and spite on wax. Vocalist Akil Greenley is one of those rare folks in hardcore who can actually sing when needed and has a dark sense of humour mixed in with his angry and pessimistic lyrics. He also co-hosts a podcast called Up The Blunx that leans towards the comedic and has also started standup comedy outside of the band recently due to making a fan in Mister Show alumnus and metal connoisseur Brian Posehn who had heralded the band on social media after hearing their EP played in a pizza shop after a show one night. Also the band has one of the best nonverbal ad libs in hardcore when Akil follows the last line of “New Wage Slavery” with the deepest, most anguished “UUUGH!” committed to record.